There’s a lot of wisdom in the tips of the best pros about getting enough sleep while playing at the Main Event. However, there’s a difference between getting enough sleep and getting too much. As the owner of eleven WSOP bracelets, Phil Hellmuth should know this by heart. Yet he still made the mistake of sleeping in on Day 2 of the Main Event and was late by nearly two hours. This mistake cost him about 10% of his stack, which wasn’t really that impressive to begin with. Those few extra hours of shut eye might have just cost Hellmuth his 12th bracelet – but, surprisingly, even with a short stack, Hellmuth is still stubbornly hanging on, managing to make it through to Day 3.
Sleeping In
Phil Hellmuth has already been through 3 final tables in this year’s WSOP. In all three, he finished second. Hellmuth doesn’t even care about the money anymore. What he wants is a bracelet. This Main Event probably means a lot to Phil Hellmuth because it’s his last shot at getting a bracelet this year. If he doesn’t win this, then he’ll have to wait until next year. It’s a good thing then, that Hellmuth has some friends who are literally willing to wake him up even if it means more competition. Everyone had wondered whether Hellmuth would be sitting out of the Main Event, what with his empty seat and steadily dwindling chip stack. People were thinking that he had become disheartened or something like that. However, Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow, a good friend of Hellmuth and a fellow poker pro, suspected that Hellmuth was just sleeping. So he sent a security guard to Hellmuth’s hotel room to inform him of what was happening. Sure enough, Hellmuth wasted no time in getting to the tournament as quick as he could.
Trying to Catch Up
“I jump out of bed, dress, and run down to my car. Didn’t know you could drive 75 on side roads!! Never crossed my mind that I played today!!”, Hellmuth said in his Twitter account. When he got there, he was just in time for another increase in the minimum bets. His chip stack of 11,800 had dwindled to just over 7,000. That’s already way below the average chip stack. He might get eliminated any time when play commences, unless he’s really very cautious about the hands he plays.
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